Chad Stahelski, one of the greatest connoisseurs of action cinema, has given details of his work
The action genre has stolen audiences’ attention for decades. Directors such as David Leitch, Paul Greengrass or Kathryn Bigelow, leave their style high in the seventh art with multimillion-dollar montages to recreate wars, mafia fights or the lives of ruthless killers.
Another who knows what he is doing very well is Chad Stahelski, who with little experience directing took the reins of the saga John Wick, becoming one of the most prominent developers of the moment. The key to him: he has been a combat sequence consultant for decades on projects like Mr and Mrs smith, Rambo or others.
For this reason, its forte are the scenes in which the main character must face a multitude of enemies. In that sense, the part of appeared John Wick 4 in which Keanu Reeves goes up the stairs and must annihilate dozens of thugs of the main villain, who is played by Bill Skarsgaard.
Will there be ‘John Wick 5’?
“Honestly, I don’t know,” the filmmaker began by telling the magazine. empire. “Lionsgate is very much in the business of doing more things John Wickunderstandably. It’s not a bad thing for a director to have a property that they want to do more of. I don’t have an opinion now. But tomorrow I could wake up and have a good idea to pass on to Keanu, or he could present it to me, and then we’d be like ‘oh my God, we have to do this right now,’” he added.
In this regard, he also commented that “Now that we have done the fourth, and completed the cycle, to say the least, I think it is a very good closure for the saga”, clarifies the famous developer. “And then there’s the competition, because the director in me says ‘fuck it, let’s see if it can be done.’ It’s very attractive, I just can’t find why at the moment. But that doesn’t mean we have to stop looking for it,” he continues.
But about his specialty, he says that there is still part of his talent that has not been able to be captured on screen. Or, the director is not 100% closed, since he assures that he has some ideas for the future. “I have scenes, action sequences in my head that we haven’t used and would love”, he indicates. “If we go back, we just can’t do the same thing. I have to do my homework. We have to do better,” she concluded.
